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单词 nisus
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The word nisus I have adopted chiefly to express an energy truly vital, and therefore to distinguish it as clearly as possible from powers merely mechanical, by which some physiologists formerly endeavoured to explain generation. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z
Now, taking as the point of departure the first creative nisus or effort of the Deity, this is true. Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation 2011-10-29T02:00:13.723Z
They put forth their nisus, and produce phenomena by a fixed and invariable law, established by the divine will. A Review of Edwards's 2011-04-27T02:00:19.047Z
This nisus naturae is never absent; it is observable even where, as in the generation of “monsters” by living organisms, it partially fails to attain its end. Ontology or the Theory of Being 2011-04-01T02:00:38.727Z
War, therefore, I would define as a phase in the life-effort of the State towards completer self-realization, a phase of the eternal nisus, the perpetual omnipresent strife of all being towards self-fulfilment. The Origins and Destiny of Imperial Britain Nineteenth Century Europe
Some cases, usually classed under the so-called nisus formativus, at first appear to come under a distinct head; for not only are old structures reproduced, but structures which appear new are formed. The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2)
She is not a bookmaker of the worst kind; she evidently had wits and literary velleities; and she does illustrate the blind nisus of the time as already indicated. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800
The will is the cause of its own act; a cause per se, a cause self-conscious and self-moving; it obeys the reason by its own nisus. A Review of Edwards's 2011-04-27T02:00:19.047Z
There remains one obscure point in any event, and that is, the nature of what the ancients called the nisus formativus. Essay on the Creative Imagination
The "epigenesists" held that both the germ and its subsequent organs were built up of juxtaposed molecules according to the operation of a developmental force, or "nisus formations." The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science
This attempt represents the grand nisus of his life. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865
But almost everywhere a strong nisus towards actual tale-telling and the rapid acquisition of proper "plant" for such telling, become evident. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800
Contingent self-determination represents the will as a cause making its nisus or volitions of itself, and determining their direction of itself—now obeying reason, and now obeying passion. A Review of Edwards's 2011-04-27T02:00:19.047Z
The "nisus forwards," of which he speaks, had no connection with the worldly ambition for success in his profession. The Youth of Goethe
It marks the nisus formativus which begins the organization of that unwritten and only half spoken public opinion recognized by Mr. Cobden as a great underlying force even in England. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864
Is not Mr. Hickson aware that la noise is a French noun-singular signifying a contention or dispute? and that the same word exists in the Latin nisus, a struggle? Notes and Queries, Number 32, June 8, 1850
It is the nisus of the intelligent principle to bring itself into ascertained and well-ordered relations with the facts, agencies, and uses of nature, alike in her physical and spiritual domains. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
It may be called a power arbitrary and contingent; but this means only that it is a power which absolutely puts forth its own nisus, and is free. A Review of Edwards's 2011-04-27T02:00:19.047Z
Even before them the nisus towards it, which has been noticed in the chapter before the last, is observable enough. The English Novel
But the essential and informing principle of foreign society is the scenical, and the nisus after display. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843
The nisus generativus is greatly increased, and he says that, if in that condition, he has full and free seminal emissions during sleep, the excitement passes off; if not, it goes on. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism
It is this nisus, or strong endeavour, of which we are conscious, that is the original impression from which this idea is copied. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
The will as the power which by its nisus produces changes or phenomena, is conscious of ability to go in either of these directions, or in opposition to both. A Review of Edwards's 2011-04-27T02:00:19.047Z
If there be a true hatred of sin, the precious time and the spiritual 'nisus' will, I think, be more profitably employed in enkindling meditation on holiness, and thirstings after the mind of Christ. The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Moreover, these practices have an influence on the relation between husband and wife, on their emotions towards each other and towards the whole sexual nisus. Birth Control A Statement of Christian Doctrine against the Neo-Malthusians
It was a conatus, what physiologists call a nisus, a struggle in a very ambitious spark, or scintilla, to kindle into a fire. Miscellaneous Essays
It must, however, be confessed, that the animal nisus, which we experience, though it can afford no accurate precise idea of power, enters very much into that vulgar, inaccurate idea, which is formed of it. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
But then again we might seek to explain why the nisus is always made in the direction of the agreeable. A Review of Edwards's 2011-04-27T02:00:19.047Z
Now the natural and essential nisus of all Will is towards absolute freedom. English Men of Letters: Coleridge
Some cases, usually classed under the so-called nisus formativus, at first appear to come under a distinct head; for not only are old structures reproduced, but new structures are formed. The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 2
This nisus went on for some centuries; but finally issued in smoke. Miscellaneous Essays
This effort—this nisus—this volition—whatever we call it,—is in the will itself, and it becomes a phenomenon to us, because we are causes that know ourselves. A Review of Edwards's 2011-04-27T02:00:19.047Z
What we observe in relation to all causes—not ourselves, whether they be self-conscious or not, is not the nisus, but the sequents of the nisus. A Review of Edwards's 2011-04-27T02:00:19.047Z
But nothing in life has a natural and essential nisus towards that which tends to its deterioration and extinction. English Men of Letters: Coleridge
BLUMENBACH, on the protuberance of the skull in Polish fowls. -on the effect of circumcision. -inheritance of a crooked finger. -on badger-dogs and other varieties of the dog. -on Hydra. -on the "nisus formativus." The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 2
And in physical causes, we do not observe the nisus of these causes, but only the phenomena which form the sequents of this nisus. A Review of Edwards's 2011-04-27T02:00:19.047Z
It is by the sequents of this nisus,—the effects produced in the external visible world, that he reveals himself to others. A Review of Edwards's 2011-04-27T02:00:19.047Z
Thus in men we do not observe the volition or nisus in their wills, but the phenomena which form the sequents of the nisus. A Review of Edwards's 2011-04-27T02:00:19.047Z
Sometimes the nisus or volition expends itself in the will, and gives no external phenomena. A Review of Edwards's 2011-04-27T02:00:19.047Z
The nisus of gravitation we do not observe; we observe merely the facts of gravitation. A Review of Edwards's 2011-04-27T02:00:19.047Z
To deny such a nisus would be to deny the activity, efficiency, and energy of cause. A Review of Edwards's 2011-04-27T02:00:19.047Z
This nisus, by its very conception and definition, admits of no antecedent, phenomenon, or movement: it is in the substance of the cause; its first going forth to effects. A Review of Edwards's 2011-04-27T02:00:19.047Z
When the determination is in the direction of the sensitivity, there is a play of emotions and passions, but the will again knows only the nisus of power which carries it in this direction. A Review of Edwards's 2011-04-27T02:00:19.047Z
If cause have not within itself a nisus to produce phenomena, then wherein is it a cause? A Review of Edwards's 2011-04-27T02:00:19.047Z
The inherent nature of cause may be so constituted and fixed, that the nisus by which it determines itself to produce phenomena, shall take place according to invariable and necessary laws. A Review of Edwards's 2011-04-27T02:00:19.047Z
The nisus of heat to consume we do not observe; we observe merely the facts of combustion. A Review of Edwards's 2011-04-27T02:00:19.047Z
A first movement or nisus of cause is just as necessary a conception as first cause itself. A Review of Edwards's 2011-04-27T02:00:19.047Z
But then again we might seek to explain why this nisus is always made in the direction of the rational. A Review of Edwards's 2011-04-27T02:00:19.047Z
Must its nisus, its self-determining energy, or its volition, follow a uniform and inevitable law? A Review of Edwards's 2011-04-27T02:00:19.047Z
Its volitions or its efforts, or its nisus to do, are limited only by the extent of its intelligence. A Review of Edwards's 2011-04-27T02:00:19.047Z
We cannot penetrate these second causes—we observe only their phenomena; but we know ourselves in the very first nisus of causation. A Review of Edwards's 2011-04-27T02:00:19.047Z
In God it is infinite, eternal, uncreated power; and every nisus in his will is really creative or modifying, according to its self-directed aim. A Review of Edwards's 2011-04-27T02:00:19.047Z
Really, volition is the nisus or effort of that cause which we call will. A Review of Edwards's 2011-04-27T02:00:19.047Z
The man may make the volition or nisus, to remove a mountain, but his arm fails to carry out the nisus. A Review of Edwards's 2011-04-27T02:00:19.047Z
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